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Is the snake horn an animal horn? What are the medicinal effects?
Recommended answers are alias "Wu Boot Teng", "Jingangteng", "Snake Sky Horn" and "Rice Ladle Teng".

From gymnema sylvestre, gymnema of Asclepiaceae.

Sylvester

(Retz。 )

Shulte. 【g。

Spartina alterniflora

(Lour。 )

Merr.], taking root and whole plant as medicine. It can be collected all year round, dried or used in small quantities.

The taste is bitter and flat.

Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling wind and relieving pain. Used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, carbuncle swelling and poisonous snake bite.

dosage

0.3 ~ 1.

Pay attention to pregnant women with caution.

Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine